Improved book-strip



@with faire @anni 4ffies GEORGII il'. CARPENDER, 0F JARVIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND P. C. STUART.

Letters Patent IVO. 64,486, dated 3h13/ 7, 1367 IMPROVED DOOR-STRIP.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Bc it known that I, GEORGE W. CARPENDER; of Jarvis, in the county of DeKalb, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful improvementin Weather-Strips; and I do hereby declare that thefollowin'g is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thcsame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, made part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 'lis a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a transverse section'.

l Figure 3 is a plan.

In the diT-erent figures the same letters are employed in referring t0identical parts The following description will enable persons skilled inthe art to manufacture my improved weahenstrip.

A is the sill of a door, and B the door. C is a cleat attached acrossthe lower part of the door. This cleat inclines outwardly from top tobottom, and has space below on Aits lower edgc to allow the metallicstrip C to be suspended, by loops or hinges, by one edge to the loweredge of the cleat, insuch manner that when th(x door is open and closedthe strips C will hang vertically, and permittingr it to rise to anangle of say fortyive degrees in passing over the strip D. D is theordinary stripncross the door-way. It does not pass directl)Y from jambto jamh, but the end at the latch side of the door is set slightlyinward, so as to leave space between vthe door and casing against whichit shuts to permit the weather-strip C to be received into a notch outin the casing, and stand'vertically between the casing and thestrip D'.E is afguide, attached to the piece D, and extending within the room. Itis in the form of a quarter segment of an ellipse, attached to the pieceD'by its minor axis, and is slightly raised above the floor of the roominto which the door opens.

The corner of the strip C is slightly bevelled, so that, strikingagainst the inner end of the guide E, which should be slightlydepressed, it will rise over the guide, sliding upon it until the door,in closing, carriesA the lower edge of the strip against thecasing-,(which should be properly protected,) when it is directed(townward, and again disposed vertically, the front resting against thecasing, which presses the back against the edge of the strip D, thuscffectually shutting out the`air from entrance below the door.

What I claim as my invention, and seek to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A hinged weather-strip C, which, in closing the door, is raised by theguide E over the threshold, and forced into a vertical position bypressure against the jamb against which it rests in front of thethreshold when the door is closed, substantially in the manner setforth.

In testimony whereo'I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. W. CARPENDER,

Witnesses:

C. L. CARPENDER, THOMAS N. McGAW.

